👋 Eventually we all fall back into our true nature but it’s those who have lost all hope who fall the fastest.

Who are you? 🤔

Take as much time as you need to process this question. It’s not a trick or a riddle.

• What is the reaction or response to that fundamental question of who are you?
• Do you need to think and ponder the answer? Or was the response instantaneous?
• Did the answer get recalled from past memories or from your intuition?
• Was it one answer or many?
• If asked again would you get the same answer?

Slow down and take a few moments to contemplate deeply…Who are you?

When you’re done contemplating this continue reading the remaining content below for a deep dive into this topic.

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before.”

• G.I. Gurdjieff

Defining the individual a.k.a “I”

Individual**;** late Middle English (in the sense ‘indivisible’): from medieval Latin individualis, from Latin individuus, from in- ‘not’ + dividuus ‘divisible’.

Defining the collective a.k.a “The Ego”

A exclusionary selection of fragments divided between parts of conscious identification and parts of unconscious non-identification. Or more simply a mask that was put on so long ago that not only did we forget we were wearing it, but we have also forgotten how to take it off.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.

Humpty Dumpty’s metaphorical wall is a self-created protective barrier formed automatically through Humpty’s childhood as a coping reaction to trauma, something we are all too familiar with. The metaphorical barrier stands between Humpty’s accepted self and the traits that Humpty either cannot bare to face or wholly rejects within himself. The dividing wall is created as a reaction to stress and trauma by Humpty’s ego mechanism in an attempt to protect Humpty from current and future suffering and this is a normal function of the ego. The ego doesn’t want Humpty to feel pain so it suppresses the fragments of itself which cause stress and push them into the unconscious shadows, choosing to only identify with the pleasurable aspects. The question over the long term however becomes, is this a good thing? Should Humpty really be fearful of fragments of his own self and more importantly should he be afraid to suffer?

As the wall separating the light aspects from the shadows is an active creation of Humpty’s psyche it means that no external force (not even the wisest or most powerful men in all of the land) can put him back together again. Only Humpty has the means to make himself whole but it first requires recognition that he is divided. Hope is what gives the ego authorisation to falsely resolve issues by means of newly created divisions, as it bypasses dealing with the issues in the moment and carries them into the future by way of further unresolved divisions.